Bowood Woodland Gardens - Family Day out at Bowood Rhododendrons, bluebells, magnolias.
Our day out at Bowood woodland gardens to see their unique display of rhododendrons, magnolias, azalaeas and bluebells. It's a great place to unplug and unwind while taking in the beautiful countryside.
Bowood woodland gardens is a great day out in Wiltshire with so much more to do. Why not visit the house and gardens on the same day.
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England 26-05-2010 Bowood Garden, Calne, Wiltshire, London Plane/ Plataan
Een oude Plataan die solitair is gegroeid. De takken zijn naar de grond toe gegroeid, hebben zich daar verankerd en geworteld en zo zijn er weer nieuwe bomen uitgegroeid. Erg mooi gezicht. 4,8 meter in omtrek.
An Old London plane. The tree stand solitary and the branches has grown to the ground. There they rooted and so there are new trees..!! Amazing... 4,8 meter in circumference
Bowood Woodland Gardens - Garden of the Year 2014
A walk around the Beautiful Bowood Woodland Gardens, named 'Garden of the Year' in 2014.
BOWOOD WOODLAND GARDENS | Wiltshire Family Days Out ideas
We went along to the Bowood Woodland Gardens on Easter Sunday. It was a beautiful day and a STUNNING walk!! The amount of stunning tree and flowers you see is just amazing! Gracie & Poppy were free because they are 4 & 6 which is also a bonus! Highly recommend whilst its open!
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WOODLAND GARDENS
Opening Friday 19th April – Early June, according to the flowering season. 11am – 6pm daily, last admissions at 5pm.
Plants in Bloom: As of Monday 29th April 2019
Bluebells – Out in bloom
Azaleas – Beginning to emerge
Loderi Rhododendrons – Out in bloom
Lord Lansdowne has advised the Woodland Gardens will be at their best between 1st – 7th May 2019.
There are over two miles of pathways throughout the Woodland Gardens. A specific route is mapped out as the ‘Walk of the Week’ to take you through the best display of flowers.
The Nosh Box is back for it’s third season, serving tea, coffee and delicious homemade cakes.
Parking is available, free of charge, adjacent to the Admissions Kiosk.
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Bowood Georgian Country House Grounds And Gardens Wiltshire.
Bowood is a grade I listed Georgian country house with interiors by Robert Adam and a garden designed by Lancelot Capability Brown. It is adjacent to the village of Derry Hill, halfway between Calne and Chippenham in Wiltshire, England.
The first house at Bowood was built circa 1725 on the site of a hunting lodge, by the former tenant Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet, who had purchased the property from the Crown. His grandfather Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had been granted the lease by Charles II. Bridgeman got into financial strife, and in 1739 under a Chancery decree, the house and park were acquired by his principal creditor Richard Long (son of Henry Long of Bayford, Herefordshire. In 1754 Long sold it to the first Earl of Shelburne, who employed architect Henry Keene to extend the house.
The 2nd Earl, Prime Minister from 1782 to 1783, was created Marquess of Lansdowne for negotiating peace with America after the War of Independence. He furnished Bowood and his London home, Lansdowne House, with superb collections of paintings and classical sculpture, and commissioned Robert Adam to decorate the grander rooms in Bowood and to add a magnificent orangery, as well as a small menagerie for wild animals where a leopard and an orangutan were kept in the 18th century. Adam also built for the 1st Earl in the park a fine mausoleum, which is also Grade I listed.
In the 1770s the two parts of the house at Bowood (the Big House and the Little House) were joined together by the construction of an enormous drawing room.
In World War I, the 5th Marchioness set up an auxiliary Red Cross hospital in the Orangery. During World War II, the Big House was first occupied by a school, then by the Royal Air Force. Afterwards it was left empty, and by 1955 it was so dilapidated that the 8th Marquess demolished it, employing architect F. Sortain Samuels to convert the Little House into a more comfortable home. Many country houses were knocked down at this period. But before it was demolished, the Adam's dining room was auctioned and bought by the Lloyd's of London insurance market, which dismantled it and re-installed it as the Committee Room in its 1958 building.
Bowood is one of Capability Brown's finest parks. Laid out over 2,000 acres (8km²) in the 1760s, it replaced an earlier, more formal garden of avenues and wildernesses. Brown's design encompasses a sinuous lake (almost 1km long), with lawns sloping gently down from the house, and drifts of mature trees. Brown planted an arboretum of rare trees in the Pleasure Grounds behind the walled garden, and these were added to in the mid-19th century when a pinetum was begun. It was at about this time that the Doric Temple folly, originally situated by Brown in the Pleasure Grounds, was moved to its present position beside the lake.
In 1766, Lady Shelburne visited the landscape garden created by Charles Hamilton on his Surrey estate, Painshill Park. Hamilton was then asked to improve on Capability Brown's design. Working with Josiah Lane, the artisan stonemason who had built a cascade and grotto at Painshill Park, in the 1780s Hamilton added a cascade, grottoes and a hermit's cave to the lakeside.
The Italianate terrace gardens on the south front of the house were commissioned by the 3rd Marquess. The Upper Terrace, by Sir Robert Smirke, was completed in 1818, and the Lower, by George Kennedy, was added in 1851. Originally planted with hundreds of thousands of annuals in intricate designs, the parterres are now more simply planted.
In 1987 the formal garden, pleasure ground, park and woodland were listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.
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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (by Mozart)
Bowood Rhododendron Walk
Kim and Amy Rhododendron Selfie
Bowood House & Gardens - Adventure Playground
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Adventure Playground
Bowood House and gardens
A day out in the Wiltshire countryside, Bowood House is between Chippenham and Calne. It is a lovely peaceful place and as the sun was shining it made for just a great day. The lovely grounds were designed by the great Capability Brown.
BBC Wiltshire is live at Bowood House and Gardens
Join us live by the beautiful lake, designed by Capability Brown at Bowood House and Gardens. We're joined by Jo Johnston, curator here.
Bowood House Triathlon - Events Logic SW
The first ever triathlon to be held in the prestigious grounds of Bowood House and its well kept Estate. Hosted by Events Logic South West.
Treetop walkway - Adventure Playground at Bowood House and Gardens
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Our trip around the treetop walkway at Bowood house and gardens. It was 4 year old Benjamin's first full trip around the tree top aerial adventure playground unassisted.
Bowood house and gardens are a great day out in Wiltshire with so much more to do.
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In the heart of stunning parkland, the Bowood is a luxury hotel with championship golf course and a spa, set in the Wiltshire countryside and with good access to the A4.
The Bowood Hotel, Spa, and Golf Resort features a luxury spa with superb facilities, including a swimming pool, gym, rock sauna, crystal steam room, and aromatherapy showers.
With stylish and contemporary decor, the rooms includes a flat-screen plasma TV and free Wi-Fi internet access.
Providing options to suite all tastes, the Bowood Hotel offers 2 individual restaurants - the Shelburne Restaurant and the Clubhouse Brasserie. The hotel also boasts a bar and 2 lounges, both with wood-burning fires.
The grounds of Bowood boast a wealth of woodland and lawns, with a tranquil lake and beautiful terraces. The hotel also provides the perfect base from which to explore the nearby Cotswolds. Derry Hill, Calne, SN11 9PQ, United Kingdom
A Relaxed Chat & Ramble to My local Woods
I filmed this vid mid May 2016
Bowood House Woodland Gardens (Rhododendrons) -
Bowood May 09
Bluebells and cockelshells
Cluny House Gardens 25-Jul-2010
Cluny House Gardens.
Scottish Woodland Garden.
Plants from around the world, including redwoods from the US.
Me, Jack + Jack At Bowood Gardens
Lovely day in wiltshire so we cruised down to bowood to take a cotch :)
Oscar's Bowood adventure
Oscar taking a tour down the drive.
Bowood House Wiltshire
Bowood House Wiltshire
Places to see in ( Chippenham - UK )
Places to see in ( Chippenham - UK )
Chippenham is a historic market town in Wiltshire, England, 13 miles east of Bath and 96 miles west of London. Chippenham was established on a crossing of the River Avon and some form of settlement is believed to have existed there since before Roman times. Chippenham was a royal vill, and probably a royal hunting lodge, under Alfred the Great. The primary school, King's Lodge School, gets its name from this tradition.
Chippenham continued to grow when the Great Western Railway arrived in 1841. The town of Chippenham is now a commuter town. Chippenham is twinned with La Flèche in France and Friedberg in Germany. The town's motto is Unity and Loyalty.
Chippenham is in western Wiltshire, at a prominent crossing of the River Avon, between the Marlborough Downs to the east, the southern Cotswolds to the north and west and Salisbury Plain to the southeast. The town of Chippenham is surrounded by sparsely populated countryside and there are several woodlands in or very near the town, such as Bird's Marsh, Vincients Wood and Briars Wood.
Suburbs include Cepen Park (North & South), Hardenhuish, Monkton, Lowden, Pewsham, Primrose Hill, Englands, Frogwell, Derriads, The Folly, Redland, Queens Crescent, Lackham, Fenway Park, and Hill Rise, loosely corresponding to local government wards. Chippenham lies 4 miles south of the M4 motorway, which links the town to Bristol, Swindon, South Wales and London.
Chippenham railway station is on the Great Western Main Line and is served by services between London Paddington and the West Country via Bristol Temple Meads or Swindon, and is famous for its railway arches and other buildings engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as part of the Great Western Railway development. Historically a market town, Chippenham's economy has since changed to that of a commuter town with residents travelling to workplaces in Bath, Bristol, Swindon and even London (almost 100 miles to the east).
Surrounding the town are a number of stone-built villages, including Lacock (National Trust), Biddestone, Bremhill, and Castle Combe. The great house and art treasures of Longleat, Bowood House, Lacock Abbey, Sheldon Manor and Corsham Court are within easy reach. Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre is in the town centre and tells the story of the market town.
( Chippenham - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Chippenham . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Chippenham - UK
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